: Typographic styling when writing about UX elements Any thoughts, standards, or good practices on typographical styles to set off UI text in a user manual? For example, how to style the text

@Frith110

Bold and italic are two levels of emphasis on text, you can use bold for things that you want more attention to be drawn at, and italic for stuff that will be noticed mid text, but will not draw much attention to it

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@Harper654

It is a little hard to give an answer to this without pending a little into the opinion factor. But well, what i usually do, and often see others doing as well, is using bold for stuff the user must FIND onscreen/somewhere, while using italics for emphasize and for prompt.

Using your example:


Select Gluten Free from the dropdown menu. Then enter "I also don't
eat soy." in the Notes box.


bold being a look for prompt, and italic being an emphasis

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